I’m traveling today. My brother is being buried at Arlington tomorrow, so I’m in the DC area. My motel room has a great view of the Pentagon, which is a very boring building to look at. So talk about whatever.
I see that David Axelrod wrote in his new book that President Obama was in support of same-sex marriage all along, and just said he wasn’t back in 2008 so he wouldn’t scare off voters. Righties are incensed. The President lied! Booman says, “The President Lied, People Got Married.”
My condolences, again maha, on the loss of your brother.
President Bush lied, people died.
President Obama lied, conservatives cry.
Feb. 11 is supposed to be mid-40s and sunny in D.C., if that is any consolation. I think it’s awe-inspiring that your brother will be buried at Arlington.
Pretty much anything David Axelrod writes, or Obama says, will make Rightie heads spin the old Exorcist-360. In fact, the gains in marriage equality up to now have been due to the tireless struggle of many, many gay people. Obama’s had little to do with it.
Our condolences, the blog can wait, the moment can’t.
I went to Arlington once as the family representative at the interment of my uncle’s ashes. I was treated very well by the folks there. It was good to know how nice they were. Hope your time there is like mine was.
“President Obama was in support of same-sex marriage all along, and just said he wasn’t back in 2008 so he wouldn’t scare off voters.”
Hardly a lie; I don’t think he believed most people were ready for that. And, at that time, he was probably right, given all the anti-gay amendments that were actually seeing significant support. People hadn’t seen enough Ellen Degenerous at that point to feel comfortable.
Gee– the alternative would be a GOP tool who probably really DID’NT support civil rights for gays. As an African-American, Obama can not have failed to see the direct parallel between gay rights and anti-miscegenation laws.
Sorry about your brother.
I’m sorry to hear about your brother.
Paris Votes to Sue Fox News.
Thanks, Moonbat. I can’t wait to see how the lawsuit will unfold. I’ve never heard anyone claim that 10% of the French population is Muslim. But, I guess Fox has their special sources. Le Monde put the figure much lower and noted that many people had recently converted after marriage, but I can’t find the link. With the National Front gaining influence some of the same nastiness is blossoming in France. I hate to see that. The right wing is really working the idea that the French culture is being overwhelmed and borrowing from our Republican Party’s obstruction playbook.
Moonbat’s linked article kinda makes me nostalgic for the guillotine.
Joan,
I’m more of a fan of what happens right before the guillotine:
The slow tumbrel ride, with the hoi polloi pelting the hoity toity with rotten fruits and vegetables, stones, and/or feces.
After riding through that gauntlet of stinky hate, I think having your head lopped off might actually be a relief.
And that’s why I want guillotines to be rusty and dull – some people don’t deserve a quick and merciful death.
Even though, yes, I’m against the death penalty.
Ordinary criminals and killers – even serial ones – don’t deserve the death penalty.
But, if we have to have one, it ought to be for economic or political criminal.
Just kidding! 🙂
I think…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkeXTlhX0OA
Off topic, on the recent shooting of 3 completely harmless Muslims in Chapel Hill, a few miles from my location:
“http://bluenc.com/content/triple-murderer-had-concealed-carry-permit”
Tom B,
I used to have an apartment in Southern Village, in Chapel Hill, so I know that area very, very well.
Terrible.
We have to many loons with guns. Now add bigotry into the mix – and you have three dead Muslim folks who weren’t harming anyone.
Btw – I lived there for 3 1/2 years, and really loved the town, and the area.
I wish I knew Chapel Hill better. I live in the piedmont where people are nice enough, but much more conservative than in the Tech Triangle or the hippie remnant areas. I usually hope out a bit of hope for those. Here, there’s little surprise when Gomer Pyle has a closet full of weaponry. Without the gun, this would have might have been unpleasant, but not tragic, like the stories we hear way too often.
We need a label for the specific psychological disorder of people who carry dangerous weapons, openly or concealed, with the idea that they are out to right the wrongs of the world, like some comic book hero. They all seem to have too much faith in their ability and judgment. That by itself is common, but it can obviously rise to the level of a mental illness and the wrong that they are “setting right” can be as trivial as someone parking in a visitor space.
goatherd,
How about “Ammosexual Super-zero” as a term?
Okay by me, cundgulag but the guys at the DSM might want something easier to put on an insurance form.
Maybe it’s an extreme manifestation of the Dunning-Kruger effect. But, they also appear to have an unhealthy need to be a hero and to be seen as such. The victims share a demographic and a psychological profile with the Jerusalem Syndrome.
Of course in less enlightened days, they were simply known as “crazy.”